There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.